Meaning of preboding | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of foreboding.

archaic, uncountable

Examples

“Thus, when with a nervous preboding Henry took up the "Watchman," […] he turned quite sick at heart to find the lying verdict run as follows […]”

“It was with a pang of preboding that his nearest friends heard him announce, while he was doing what proved to be his last work for the press, that he was "going to kill Mrs. Partington."”

CEFR level